Show TJFE TOUGHEST TOWN WAS NCWTON KANSAS IN TUB EARLY SEVENTIES A npIM rates TnsyIlol la bla tualh II tree o Record IlrkeA taeIndlne Ilallt IIteea she law I 54 the tw Ablding it HI toiigheit mulct edeit wild net town I OHr knew 6 aid imrfalo Illll Q UUUenld I wui Newton fit Kant III It wu In r f the early acvcntlc 2 er DoJge City and stat ton Junction uwd to t rP 9 figure In the new X paper os the typl II cal tough town on the border but Newton could give cnrdi and ipnde on wholeMla cloprav Ily and rceklexnraa Nevlon today le I wide awake enter prliilng and iieenlje snub the cltlient know only by tradition of the iccnr of blood lu Iho early day It has n handsome opera haute costly and imposing im-posing county bulldlngi hundred ol pretty home wide avenue of residence < < resi-dence long commercial ttreoti and proBpernui wholesale and manufacturing manufactur-ing concern In the spring of 1871 tho termlmia nt Iho Hantn F 0 railroad was at Im porln It Will determined to build ton to-n point evcntyflvo miles further wl Tho object wens to catch the Texas cal tin rile Two men went snub non n-on the spot In April 1871 There wtu not n foot of lumber then lu what is I now llarvcy county ICnu These men were Iho plnnecro of the town that Captain John Sebastian nflerwnrdi named Newton Six week later there wa n population of nearly 2000 The history of tha t town for the first eight montlii Is I u story of 1IIIIrlln nnd bloodihiMl that has probably never been equaled on this continent although other place mining ramp sod rattle town havo kept up the niuilc of limo plitol greater length of lime A5 toon ne It bccnmo known that Newton Will to be the end of the railroad for a year I nod it was tn lie a cattle fchlnnlnr point I whliky teller gambler nnd thieve Hocked there by hundred Of count many rotpcelablo men necking n legitimate legit-imate builnem went there too but Iho j object ut the majority of Iho newcomer crs was to rob the cowboy and cattlemen cattle-men menFor I month It woe n uetcr > ending battle From Ural to laU Ihlrtyilx person were killed with their boot on At lent n dozen gambling houtcj wcra run on the main street and the door wcro kept open day and night Including Hunday Ono of them the Told llooni was capable of holding WO to COO people Every known kind of gambling wo practlcell A scene occurred thla place ono Hipiday night that It I not often wltnmndi A Mctho > din preiyhcr went In the fiow ol tha I I ilwiln SiJnTrJi vAirs tat71t nSnr granted and with every gatiibllng tnblo running and the bar icnJtng out lit liquid hell the preacher the Item Mr Halm Mood up and told the story of Iho Man of Naxurclh lie lore ho had flnlihcd ills sermon u quarrel nroio at I ono of the curd table and a man wan that It It not Intended to give a detailed account of thin murdcrt U n gang ot rowboy rode Into town tie tnullo provocation would act their gun going and going to kill A bond election were held Several tpcclal canitnble were appointed for election day Ono af them Soo n Texnn named Martin At tha polio hero wn a quarrel 1 between him and a big Irlihman who railed himself McCluikcy but almost rent name was Arthur Dolanry 1 Tho reiult of that quarrel woe tho death of eight men and ono woman und the wounding of an equal nunibtr Alter the election woo over McCluiUcy and Martin met In tho 10110 Stir taloon and renewed the quarrel A proportion woo made and accepted lo go out on Iho surer and nettle It with tho flit lloth men laid off their bells and ttnrtrd fur the street Marlin had a gun hidden In his boot and just an the door was reached ho went down after II Intending to kill Iho Irlthman McCluiUey 1 wu Ion quick for him nnd taking tie gnu nway from Martin hot him den < < Me Cluikcy gate hhnielt up und 5505 acquitted ac-quitted Martin had a boil ot I dents and they voncil vengeance on hula tlayer ilia death led to what has uhvnin been known III the big killing In Nawlon There were three dane hall ncron tho railroad track In what wa known ni Hyde Park In one of them the big killing oecurrcl McCluikey wai a hangcran at one of them Mnrtlni filcnd 0 wore they would kill 1 him and all who took iris part the engagement took place according to program Me Cluikcy wa killed early In the fray IIn had two hole through hit neck nnt enough lead Wag nattered about through Ills body to umke anyone who dlicoverod hid grave Imagine hat ho had Rtruck n paying lend mine A man on the McCluikey lde that nine of Iho longhorn crowd and dU It In a novel wny Knowing that tho tight would occur this man lllley by name went prepared to milk hlmiclf felt He had four tlxihootcr on him At tho tint pop of n gun ho deliberately walked up to a Texan and hot him In thin eye then running hli nrmn between the nrma nod 1 body of the dead man undo a human barricade and that at will trot a cube umbiuh After the fighting fight-ing ho went out mounted a horte and left Tho dead at tho big killing wore ipeedlly dlrpowd of and tho wunnded taken care of |